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Definition: RATSBANE |
RATSBANENoun1. Rat poison; white arsenic. |
Date "RATSBANE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: RATSBANE |
| English words defined with "RATSBANE": Ratsbaned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RATSBANE": yellow ratsbane. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RATSBANE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | helm kundër minjve, bimë helmuese. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мишеморка. (various references) | |
Greek | ποντικοφάρμακο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | turbolya (chervil). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atsbaneray.(various references) | |
Russian | крысиный яд, отрава для крыс. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otrov za pacove. (various references) | |
Turkish | sıçanotu, fare zehiri, arsenik (arsenic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RATSBANE": ratsbanes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antbears. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: abaters, abreast, antbear, banters. | |
-2 letters: abaser, abater, abates, absent, anears, ansate, antres, arenas, astern, banter, barest, baster, brants, breast, brents, rabats, ratans, reatas, sterna, tabers. | |
-3 letters: abase, abate, abets, anear, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antra, antre, areas, arena, aster, banes, bares, barns, baser, baste, bates, beans, bears, beast, beats, bents, betas, braes, brans, brant, brats, brens, brent, earns, etnas, nabes, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, rabat, rants, ratan, rates, reata, rents, saber, sabra, sabre, saner, saran, snare, stane, stare, stern, taber, tabes, tares, tarns, tears, terns, trans. | |
-4 letters: abas, abet, anas, anes, ansa, anta, ante, ants, arbs, area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, baas, bane, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, bear, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, brae, bran, bras, brat, bren, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, nabe, nabs, near, neat, nebs, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rebs, rent, rest, rets, sabe, sane, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, stab, star, tabs, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tear, teas, tens, tern, tsar. | |
-5 letters: aas, aba, abs, ana, ane, ant, arb, are, ars, art, ate, baa, ban, bar, bas, bat, ben, bet, bra, ear, eat, ens, era, ern, ers, eta, nab, nae, neb, net, ran, ras, rat, reb, res, ret, sab, sae, sat, sea, sen, ser, set, tab, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aberrants, abstainer, ratsbanes. | |
+2 letters: abnegators, abstainers, antirabies, bandmaster, carbonates, rabbinates. | |
+3 letters: aberrations, abreactions, absorptance, alabastrine, bandmasters, baronetages, brainteaser, interabangs, sandblaster, sauerbraten, tabernacles, tarnishable, trabeations, treasonable, treasonably. | |
+4 letters: absorptances, abstractness, antechambers, antiliberals, arbitraments, bearbaitings, bicarbonates, brainteasers, breakfasting, contrabasses, contrastable, debarkations, decarbonates, distrainable, elaborations, embarkations, entablatures, handbreadths, handsbreadth, libertarians, rattlebrains, restrainable, sandblasters, sauerbratens, scatterbrain, standardbred, subterranean, talebearings, trainbearers, transferable, transfusable, translatable, transmutable, transposable. | |
+5 letters: abbreviations, abnormalities, administrable, antisubmarine, arbitrariness, ascertainable, cabinetmakers, elaborateness, embarrassment, exacerbations, featherbrains, handsbreadths, hebraizations, neuroblastoma, observational, reasonability, rehabilitants, scatterbrains, skateboarding, standardbreds, superabundant, tractableness, transferrable, transformable, transmembrane, transmittable, transportable, turbellarians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 54 53 42 41 4E 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- - ... -... .- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01010100 01010011 01000010 01000001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A T S B A N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0054 0053 0042 0041 004E 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5235545336354839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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